Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.